Mr.Howard Baumgarten, LPC

Area Of Expertise : Healthcare
10 Years Of Experience
Training Industry : Hospital & Healthcare

Howard Baumgarten is a Licensed Professional Counselor, author, consultant, speaker, wellness and small business-training expert, and owner of a successful mental health private practice in Lakewood, Colorado. He is the founder of Smart Practice Central, a healthcare business-building platform that values intelligent, ethical, and clinically minded practice development, and provides clinical practice business consultation and trainings to private practices and healthcare agencies. Howard has lectured throughout the country on the integration of mental health and business, focusing on practice development, working within managed care systems and the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on mental health care. He is the author of Private Practice Essentials: Business Tools for Mental Health Professionals, a guide to starting and successfully managing mental health practice. 
In 2003, he developed and implemented the first practice building business curriculum in a graduate level-counseling program in the country at the University of Colorado, where he taught this curriculum for twelve years. He is the former Director of Network Relations for Westside Behavioral Care, Inc., a clinical group practice he helped build into one of Colorado's largest outpatient behavioral health practices. Howard routinely consults and trains businesses and organizations across a variety of industries in areas including managing stress, building resilience, creating work/life balance, burnout prevention, and other wellness related topics.
 

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Recorded Webinar

Budgeting & Building Wealth In Private Practice

Managing the financial aspects of private practice can be extremely challenging for any healthcare professional. Graduate level clinical training programs historically do not train students in business models, even basic budgeting and financial management.  Th ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
Recorded Webinar

Critical Workplace Incidents: From Adversity to Resilience

A critical workplace incident can be a devastating experience. Such incidents impact productivity, teamwork, morale, as well as the personal lives of employees. While it is the hope that no such incident occurs in your work environment, it’s an unfortunate rar ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 90 Mins
On-Demand Webinar

Stress Management - Strategies for Reducing Stress in the Workplace

Professionals are under more stress than ever evidenced by increases in demand for better services that are more efficient and thorough, higher costs, reduced staffing, and diminishing resources. Many workers are putting in longer hours and for less pay. From ...

  • Intermediate
  • 90 Mins
Recorded Webinar

Burning up while Burning out - Compassion Fatigue Awareness & Burnout Prevention for Healthcare Professionals

Healthcare professionals are under more stress than ever evidenced by increases in demand for better services that are more efficient and thorough, higher costs, reduced staffing, and diminishing resources. Many healthcare workers are putting in longer hours a ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 90 Mins